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...aqua, gold and navy tent (capacity 2,000) near Bear Mountain, only an hour's drive from Manhattan. From season's start the tent was jammed to capacity, and the programs included such stimulating fare as a full-stage production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a production of Stravinsky's stately Oedipus Rex, conducted by Stokowski. Impresario Forest, who still clips profitable pharmaceutical coupons, thinks that in another summer or so the festival will pay its own way. Meantime, he is angling for a new audience: the passengers on incoming foreign liners, who will...
Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
...Vivaldi was preceded by a Brahms motet, O Heiland Reiss die Himmel Auf, portions of a Byrd Mass, and a powerful Brahms prelude played magnificently by the organist, James Armstrong...
Grandpa Jones and Hank Snow are admittedly inferior to Thomas L. Thomas, and "The Drunkard's Song" may not equal the musical and aesthetic excellence of "Auf dem Wasser du singer." Either in spite of this, or because of this, however, hillbilly music remains popular at Harvard...
...Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Vienna's Leonie Rysanek, British Tenor Richard Lewis, and a strong group of young American discoveries. This season's highlights: the brilliantly staged U.S. premiere of Francis Poulenc's religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes as serious as Salome, sometimes as raffish as Rosenkavalier. With Soprano Rysanek in the title role and Pittsburgh's Conductor William Steinberg in the pit, the production was a triumph...